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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did some people who was physically and mentally able to work do?
(a) Take care of others but not themselves.
(b) Answer to a higher calling.
(c) No work.
(d) Give to those less fortunate.

2. How many paupers, prisoners and lunatics does he cite?
(a) 15,000
(b) 200,000.
(c) He has no idea.
(d) 1500.

3. What was one thing the London City Mission did?
(a) Watched that people were not taxed unfairly.
(b) Helped the merchants to keep track of vagrants who steal.
(c) Went door to door and read scripture.
(d) Told the police when there was crime in an area.

4. In whom does Mayhew say this moral defect is present?
(a) Vagrants, vagabonds and criminals.
(b) Mentally slow individuals.
(c) He does not specify.
(d) Those not raised in a good home.

5. What was one thing the mission about which Hemyng writes intended to do?
(a) Increase the saving of prostitutes to the Lord.
(b) Reduce abandoned children.
(c) Reduce blasphemy.
(d) Increase marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say happens to a young girl lured away from home?

2. What did the casual ward provide?

3. Whose son was the fire eater?

4. To what does Nemyng attribute the spread of vice in Europe?

5. When did the magician's father die?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the difference between a conductor and other street people?

2. Who was the magician Mayhew interviewed and how did he become a magician?

3. Why was the clown Mayhew interviewed depressed and why was he a clown?

4. Who did Mayhew call street folk?

5. What did the London City Mission do?

6. Why did the author say "Dolly shops" were suspect?

7. What does Mayhew say someone who is unable to work must do and how does he feel about those able to work who won't?

8. What was a "Dolly mop" and who did the author consider one?

9. What was pornography and why did it become illegal in London?

10. Who did Tuckniss call a prostitute?

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